Archives
Chairs
Maryna Chernyavska, Kule Folklore Centre, University of Alberta
Emese Ilyefalvi, Department of Folkloristics, Etövös Loránd University (Budapest)

Body, Affects, Senses, and Emotions
Chair
Prof. Jonas Frykman, Department of Art and Cultural Sciences, University of Lund, Sweden

Cultural Heritage and Property 
Chair
Robert Baron, Goucher College, United States of America
Carley Williams, Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Digital Ethnology and Folklore 
Chairs
Coppélie Cocq, University Helsinki, FI / Umea University, Sweden
Andrew Peck, Miami University, US

Ethnology of Religion 
Chair
Alessandro Testa, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Czechia
Victoria Hegner, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen

Feminist Approaches to Ethnology and Folklore 
Chairs
Chair - JoAnn Conrad: Diablo Valley College, History.
Co-chair - Dagrún Ósk Jónsdóttir: University of Iceland, Ethnology and Folklore.

Food Research 
Chairs
Chair - Patricia Lysaght, UCD Delargy Centre for Irish Folklore and the National Folklore Collection.
Co-chair - Maja Godina Golija, University of Maribor and Institute of Slovenian Ethnology ZRC, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Co-Chair - Håkan Jönsson, Lund University, Sweden

Francophone Working Group 
Chair
Dr. Laurent Sébastien Fournier, Department of Anthropology, Aix-Marseille-University, France
Email: franconetwork(at)siefhome.org

Historical Approaches in Cultural Analysis 
Chairs
Katre Kikas, Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu
Konrad Kuhn, European Ethnology, University of Innsbruck

Working Group on Migration and Mobility
Chairs
Ignacio Fradejas-García, University of Iceland
Helena Pettersson, Umea University

Museums and Material Culture
Chairs
Prof. Dr. Hester Dibbits, lector of cultural heritage and course director of the Master of Museology at Amsterdam University of the Arts (AHK) and endowed professor historical culture and education at Erasmus University Rotterdam
Dr. Lizette Gradén, Associate professor of Ethnology, Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University; Affiliate Associate Professor, Dept. of Scandinavian Studies, University of Washington
Uta Karrer, Fränkisches Museum Feuchtwangen, Germany

Narrative Cultures
Chairs
Helmut Groschwitz (chair, contact person), Institut für Volkskunde (Institute for European Ethnology), Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany
Petr Janeček (chair), Charles University Prague, Czech Republic

Place Wisdom
Chairs
Adjunct Prof. Pauliina Latvala-Harvilahti, University of Eastern Finland
Cáit McCullagh, PhD Candidate at the Intercultural Research Centre, Heriot-Watt University; the Institute for Northern Studies, University of the Highlands and Islands, and Shetland Museum and Archives

The Ritual Year 
Chairs
Emily Lyle, Honorary Chair, Honorary Fellow of The University of Edinburgh
Irina Sedakova, Chair (Russia), Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Laurent Fournier, Chair (France), Department of Anthropology, Aix-Marseille-University

Space-lore and Place-lore
Chairs
Karolína Pauknerová PhD, Co-Chair, Centre for Theorethical Study, Charles University Prague
László Mód, Co-Chair, Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Szeged

Young Scholars Working Group 
Chairs
László Koppány Csáji, Co-Chair, University of Pécs, Hungary
Gunnar Óli Dagmararson, Co-Chair, University of Iceland
Ana Svetel, Co-Chair, University of Ljubljana
Zuzana Terry, Co-Chair